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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks in their 70s, 80s and 90s should be avoiding any contact with daycare or school aged kids right now.  Even fully vaxxed and boosted they are more likely to end up really really sick and rates are currently insane.  It's not a forever thing--give it a few weeks and this spike should start to resolve. [/quote]

You know some people in their 70s, 80s, and 90s live with family, including younger children.  Where are they supposed to go?[/quote]

“Not my problem.” This is basically what parents of young kids have heard for the past 2 years when childcare centers and schools shut down overnight. Do you think my employer cares if schools/daycares shut down and I have no childcare? Yet I’m supposed to go into year #3 of caring about elderly people who have access to vaccines and boosters? They can take some of the burden of this from working parents now, it’s time for them to assess the risk for themselves and figure out how they want to handle it. So many of us with young kids were flippantly told to “just hire a nanny” even though that was not in budget for many/most families. So now I flippantly say, go figure it out. I cannot take on responsibility for this any longer.[/quote]

Some of us actually care for young kids and elderly parents.[/quote]

DP than PP, but that’s your problem to navigate. How did you/would you handle flu season before covid? Because covid is less risky than flu now. Stop shutting down day cares for all kids. If you’re freaking out about a cold because you have at risk family members, then take your kid out of day care or, if you’re staff, consider a career change. The rest of us still would like to send our kids so we can keep our jobs. COVID is here to stay, and it will be one of many colds and flus circulating every year. [/quote]

And likewise, the inflexibility of your employer is *your* problem to navigate.[/quote]

Fair enough. But make it make sense to me. Risk of covid less than flu for kids and vaccinated. So are you saying we should mask forever, start swabbing for flu and colds constantly, and quarantine classrooms whenever any one has flu or a cold? Should we adjust academic calendars so we expect kids to only have a few months of in person learning and allow for the fact that we will have no idea when those days will be because they depend on no one in the classroom being sick? Or should we return to the world as it was with reliable daycares that let parents have jobs with normal employers that don’t provide 6+ months of paid leave every year for child care responsibilities? Cause I’m guessing more people want the latter and want you to figure out how to handle your more unusual situation where you can’t risk anyone in your family getting a cold. [/quote]

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